Maya Angelou Biograpy

Maya Angelou was born on April 4th, 1928. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and she was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. When she was a teenager she loved arts and she got a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco Labor School. She dropped out at age 14 to become San Francisco's first African-American female cable car conductor. A few weeks before graduation Maya Angelou had her first child named Guy. She got a job as a waitress and a cook but she would soon become famous for her poetry. In 1954 and 1955 Maya Angelou studied modern dance with Martha Graham and she danced with Alvin Ailey on television and she recorded her first album Calypso Lady. She moved to New York in 1958. While living there she joined the Harlem Writers Guild and she acted in the historic Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Black's and wrote and performed Cabaret for Freedom. Maya Angelou moved to Cairo,Egypt in 1960 and she served as editor of of the English language weekly The Arab Observer. After that she moved to Ghana and she taught at the University of Ghana's School of Music and Drama and she worked as the feature editor for The African Review and she wrote for The Ghanaian Times. Maya Angelou published the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1970. Maya Angelou has won many awards such as 3 Grammy Awards and President Clinton asked her to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration in 2003. Maya Angelou is and always will be an inspirational women.

Here is a poem from Maya Angelou.

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